The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

IS nonsense to claim that the pyramids
Of Egypt were long in construction
Three or four years, he believes, suf-
feed for the building of the highest Of
them.
The divorced wife of ex-senator
Fair, TO whom the courts gave four
millions and half from her ex-hus-
bands estate, can not find places
enough for the interest on her money,
and is rapidly adding to that sum.
THERE is house in Philadelphia that
has been standing for $50 years. 1t
was built before Penn obtained his
charter, end is one story high, with an
Immense roof. The walls, made of
stone, are two feet thick, and the oaken
doors are large and heavy.
The Comte de Paris has placed the
rife range of the park at Eu at the
disposition Of the garrison of that
place. His kinsman, Count de Char
tres, recently gave his demesne of
Chantilly, worth 6O000,000 francs, to
the republic to prove his patriotism.
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Mr.. GLApsToSE's birthday gifts in
cluded, among other things, red kerr
chief for his neck, at least dozen bot
ties of his favor,te jam. one mutton and
three mince pies and a box of pills, the
last-named from the husband of the
woman who forwarded the mutton pie.
Mr.. GLADSTONE was paid 81, 250 for
his article on Lord Tennyson's poem,
"Lockesly Hall; or, Sixty Years At
ter" which still continues to form one
of the chief topics of conversation in
London. The price was the largest
ever paid in England for so short an
essay.
In Shasta, Cal, one day recently, a
Justice of the peace fined citizen $45
for misconduct. Il won't pay it,
said the man. "Will you pay STOP"
demanded the justice. NO" by
Cad, then. give me tive," pleaded the
justice, but the delinquent swore he
wouldn't paw cent, and he didn't,
and that was the end of it.
GEORGE M. BARTHOLOMEW, the
Hartford. Conn. defaulter, is spend
ing the winter at Quebec, and the set
Element of his affairs seems to be as far
off as ever. He is said to have very
little of his own money left but his
friends see that he wants for nothing.
There is no definite knowledge of how
much his creditors will realize.
LIEUT.. WILLIAM ii. EMORY, who has
been assigned to the command Of the
United States steamer Thetis, was COM
mander of the Bear, one of the Greedy re-
lief expedition, and pushed the vessel
through the ice-packs in advance Of all
the other vessels, Notwithstanding the
fact that the whalers had the stimulus
of the $4,000 reward offered by the
government.
A WRITER on college customs says
the social position of students fam
lily has very little to do with his posi-
ton in college. A youth of tact and
agreeable address is often to be found
in a place of far more prominence than
is accorded to his people in ordinary
life. On the other hand an eccentric
man OF the most fashionable connec-
tions is often no where in college.
The youthful Archduchess aarie
Valerie. the youngest child Of the En-
peror Francis Joseph, is the latest ac-
cession to the long list Of princely verse
makers. The Vienna Neae Freie Presse
gravely states that the archduchess is
merciless in her self-criticism. inces-
sanity correcting and improving her
poetic productions. before making mp
her mind to show them to the favored
few. She has now completed a drama
which i 10 Be performed before the
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